College students with high math anxiety have lower math performance. Instructors can reduce students’ math anxiety with instructional supports discussed in this blog.

As we prepare for schools to reopen in the near future, we need to ask if we truly want to go back to exactly how things were before the pandemic started. We have an opportunity to make changes for the better for our whole nation. What lessons have we learned and what do we want our educational system to look like?

We know too well that if students are not engaged, they will not learn. In this blog post we discuss goal orientation; ego-involved, task-completion, and learning, and how this impacts student success.

Not knowing how to analyze data is a universal issue and we, as instructors in STEM, can and should teach our students how to analyze data. It is in grappling with data that deep learning can occur.

While some colleges may not be using test scores, these scores do have their uses for K-12 schools. Because of that, the SAT and other standardized tests will not go away because they do have their uses. Here's a look at why the SAT stands the test of time.

High school students around the country are gearing up to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). For college-bound students, it is a right of passage, a way to compare with others, and one more way to get into the college of choice. But the SAT has come under fire lately with many colleges around the country adopting a “test optional” or a “‘test blind” policy for admissions.

Data means graphs. Significant, relevant, real-world graphs. And yet, in most math courses, students only see the graphs they find in their textbooks. Years ago there were valid excuses for us using contrived graphs. That is not the case today.

Many math teachers, me included, focus on teaching more than learning. Here is one thing you can do tomorrow to improve learning in your math class.

Instead of perfecting our lectures and us being the active ones, we needed to switch things up and create activities for the students to do to engage them in the learning.